David Aronoff spent nearly 30 years as a traditional venture capitalist at Greylock and Flybridge before deliberately pivoting to climate investing at My Climate Journey Collective, motivated by his children's questions about what his generation would do to fix climate change and his personal experiences seeing environmental impacts as an outdoorsman. He joined MCJ through an unusual progression from LP to advisor to executive chair to full-time Chairman and General Partner, and has architected the fund's institutional structure while designing a community-centric diligence model that taps MCJ's 4,000+ member network for domain expertise rather than relying solely on the partners' generalist backgrounds.

• Focuses on investing in advanced artificial intelligence startups that go beyond basic language processing to understand physical and geospatial environments, which he highlighted by sharing his participation in a nine million dollar funding round for the startup LGND.
• Participates in endurance cycling events for charity, giving founders a great personal topic for building rapport, particularly his dedication to the Pan Mass Challenge where he recently completed training for his thirteenth ride.
• Enjoys critically acclaimed television dramas and comedies, offering an easy icebreaker for a pitch meeting, as he highly praised Succession and Ted Lasso while declaring The Bear the absolute best show on television right now.